one-day course

gluten-free breads & pastry

location: nr Penrith, Cumbria

Make delicious gluten-free breads and pastries.

Tutor Gillian Harris has always been interested in cookery, especially baking. Her job after Sunday school was to bake bread and cakes for the family for the week. It was never a chore for her – she loved being in the kitchen. Over the years she learnt to make cakes for her siblings' birthdays and later for other members of the family and for friends. This expanded to wedding cakes, christening cakes, buffets, etc,as the family grew up.

Since moving to Cumbria and becoming involved with the Women's Institute and the Sugar Craft Guild, Gillian has demonstrated various forms of cookery and cake decorating - fish cookery, soups, starters, quick suppers, jams & preserves, gateaux, sugar flowers, gelatine flowers, all kinds of cake icing and decorating, bread making by hand and by machine.

As a result of a Christmas bread making demonstration Gillian was approached by Carrs and asked to help with the development and promotion of their specialist bread making flours developed for bread machines. Since then she has given many demonstrations and workshops, enjoyed trying out different recipes and different bread machines. She has also been asked by many people with food intolerances to find recipes to suit and found this area of research really interesting.

dates: see 'book online' below

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the venue is a cafe on a coast-to-coast cycle path near Penrith, close to Ullswater and the northern fells of the Lake District